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Anna Murphy

@annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social
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Flora ecologist specialising in threatened species.

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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Thank you @georgemonbiot.bsky.social once again for exposing the gaslighting and negligence that those of us with #MECFS face from the medical community. In my case, it took four years to get a diagnosis of ME after being told the condition didn't exist which lead to having a dreadful 'crash'.
theguardian.com
Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot
Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Yes. Diagnosed with FM. Rheumatologist didn’t believe in ME CFS (I’m now diagnosed). Crashed because wasn’t warned about exertion.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Sorry not to be reply to everyone who responded to my info request about #ME/CFS treatment y'day. Totally overwhelmed by utterly horrific stories. Now busy pulling it all together. And starting to see that there's a whole other story to be written (one day) about capital and chronic conditions. 1/2
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
These are lovely but i don’t think the link is working.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Lack of diagnosis of #MECFS meant that I wasn’t informed that exertion was dangerous. This year I pushed myself beyond my limits and ‘crashed’. Now every thing I do is planned: standing up #POTS, walking, working at my desk. My world is very small now but my memories of wild places keeps me going.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Wonderful novel
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Australian pioneering modernist photographer Olive Cotton, Tea Cup Ballet, c.1935 #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a group of six angular cups and saucers with long shadows
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
What a delightful scene that must have been.
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The Hermit of Everything @hermiteveryday.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
..and then I noticed it was spider web morning..and I totally forgot about breakfast and I was walking entranced by magic. ✨
Cobwebs tangled on closed yellow flowers amid thin green stalks.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Thank you ☺️. I paid for it later but it lifted my spirits so much.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After a severe #MECFS crash six months ago I became bed bound and housebound for months. I’m only slowly managing to recover with the hope that life will go back to some semblance of ‘normal’. On Saturday, I walked up a mountain track in northern Victoria.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Wade Davis reported an Icelandic Inuit saying ‘Despair is a sin against the imagination’. If we indulge in despair we loose our ability to find solutions.
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Jennie Kermode @jenniekermode.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
In the future, there will be people who look at how hard life has become and wish they could go back to do things differently. But we're lucky. We live now. We still _can_ do things differently. We are like time travellers in a position to save much of what would otherwise have been lost.
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Emerge Australia @emergeaustralia.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Today, #SevereMEDay recognises people living with severe and very severe #MECFS.  Help ensure their experiences are seen, heard & counted. Complete our anonymous national survey.  A carer can assist or respond on your behalf.   👉 zurl.co/mBKTD 🖼️ Lea Aring & German Association for ME/CFS
Emerge Australia Count ME graphic for Severe ME Day 2026. A person lies in bed in a dark room wearing headphones and an eye mask. Text reads: “Severe ME Day 2026. Counting to be included.”
Photo credit: Lea Aring and German Association for ME/CFS.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
Brilliant oration in Beechworth by Deborah Cheetham Fraillon, proud Yorta Yorta & Yuin woman, renowned soprano & founder of #shortblackopera. In the aftermath of the brutal colonisation of this country & our refusal to elect a #VoicetoParliament, she asks us who we really are & who we want to be.
kerferdoration.org
THE KERFERD ORATION
Promoting Community Discussion
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
Emerge Australia is one of Australia’s leading ME CFS (myalgic encephalomyelitis) support and advocacy organisations. They use peer reviewed science to provide practical advice to patients. They are an outstanding organisation. Those of us in Australia rely heavily on their support.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
Possibly the most adorable dragon. Australia, we need to lift our game in the conservation and recovery of threatened flora and fauna. #threatenedspecies #nature #biodiversity #australianfauna
theguardian.com
How to conserve your dragon – and avoid losing Australia’s most imperilled reptile for a second time
Melbourne zoo’s new breeding centre hopes to safeguard the future of the critically endangered Victorian grassland earless dragon
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
From the days before social media, Rodger Deakin savoured the simplicity of random ideas… “Jottings, in their spontaneity and complete absence of any craft, are often so much truer to what I actually feel or think at a given moment.” #RodgerDeakin #naturewriting #eastcoastkin #writing #natureheals
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Add job loss and poverty to that one.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
They are the personification of the worst case Ai scenario.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Small things, deep gratitude. #cureME #MECFS #rest
Clara the grey and brown tabby poses in the sun on a wooden plant stand next to a vase with an umbrella-like leaf.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
Recovery has made my world very small of late. To keep my mind from being consumed by my situation I am focussing on the beauty of the small things around me. #cureME #fibromyalgia #cancerschmancer #natureheals #MECFS
Leaf of the tractor seat plant catching the light on its surface from the kitchen window. Underside of the tractor wheel plant leaf. Tractor seat plant leaf in a blue glass vase circa 1950.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Reading poetry out loud tonight by Gerard Manley Hopkins. What a wild tongue twisting challenge it is but so vibrant and alive. #poetry #natureheals
A yellowing old hardback book of poetry by Gerard Manley Hopkins entitled ‘Look up at the Skies’.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Gf too pls.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
I will be in the UK next year so I must add it to the bucket list!
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
What a marvellous place.
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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
On this International Women’s Day, I cannot stop thinking about all the girls in Iran, in Sudan, in Gaza, and so may places — girls whose lives were snuffed out in conflicts they played no part in, before they could ever become women. And I am thinking about their mothers.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thank you, a liberating poem. I needed this today ✨✨
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Rewild Scotland @rewildscotland.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Landscape ecological restoration. It can be done but we need to get a move on. This is Carrifran where the sheep were removed to allow this native woodland to take over.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Thinking about the beautiful lotus flowers that I saw in full bloom at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne a couple of years ago. It’s been one of those days. #biophilia #natureheals #fibromyalgia #MECFS #planttherapy
A lotus flower emerging from a sea of green lotus leaves. The cream outer petals have opened to reveal dusky pink inner petals still in bud-like form.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
He can’t afford to lose the midterms - there’s too much evidence against him. What are the chances that he creates a state of emergency to impede the midterms by alleging Iran has rigged the elections?
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
I'm holding out hope that this research gets funded. It seem empirical and a true recognition that ME CFS is not in our heads. #mitodicure.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Stillness. Magpies carolling in the street outside and the cat snoozing in a ray of morning sunshine.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Seasonal harvest in challenging times. Although cancer treatment has well and truly ended now, #fibromyalgia still has its grip on me leaving me confined to bed. #natureheals #eatyourveg. Some days are tough but it’s essential for me to hold on to happiness.
Parsley flowers, their inflorescences opened like a firework, sitting in a glass on the window sill. A rough bouquet of fragrant basil (still with white flowers attached) and parsley sprigs on a white table cloth. At its base, there are small crimson cherry tomatoes and larger unripe beefsteak tomatoes.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
Thank you
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Love this!
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
This is the definition of perfection.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Yes it was very atmospheric (pun intended) 🙂. I had a few wild nights on my own out there but it really was worth it.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
#peaceonearth #natureheals
The still waters of a coastal bay in southern Australia
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
Something was brewing at my coastal campsite retreat last night #girlsownadventure #cancerrecovery #fibromyalgia #natureheals
A coastal landscape with stormy clouds over a green sea.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Hugs to you too JingleCat. Cancer has knocked my confidence enormously as life and plans are on hold. Your camping destination looks absolutely stunning. Peaceful and awe inspiring. Thinking of you and sending best wishes from the other side of the world. I hope all goes well with your tests
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Yes, beautiful bushland and there are relatively few people here. Icy water but a dip is good for the spirit I find!
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Each year I take myself camping to recover from #fibromyalgia. This year, I’m also recovering from cancer. Being here reminds me to pay attention to daily moments; respond with compassion to my chatter of self recrimination and observe the beauty and diversity of life in this remarkable landscape.
The post sunset coastal landscape of Lutruwita
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
Lace curtain
The landscape of Avoca, Tasmania through a hand made antique lace curtain. Light from the setting sun illuminates the otherwise blue grey clouds. There are patches of dusty blue sky throughout.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Daily moments #EastCoastKin
Rimless spectacles on a laptop. A tabby cat in the blurred background.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
I might have to put it on the list! Will be heading that way in 2027.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Incredible images. What impressive buildings.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
It’s such a great season for roses in Central Victoria. This is a heritage rose from my front garden. Two years ago, I picked some flowers for a friend who had just finished chemotherapy. Little did I know that two years later it would mark the end of mine. #cancer #natureheals
A large yellow rose with only the slightest tinge of pink on the outer petals. A large hello rose with dark green foliage in the background. This rose is more open than the first and the pink tinges on the outer petals are more prominent.
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Fascinating and sounds delicious
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Anna Murphy @annabuzzmurphy.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
I loved this so much too. Must have been all that subliminal advertising that convinced me..
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